The Shawnee Heights Thunderbirds will venture away from home to take on the Basehor-Linwood Bobcats at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Expect the scorekeeper to be kept busy: if their previous games are any indication, both will really light up the scoreboard.
Last Friday, Shawnee Heights was fully in charge, breezing past West 53-8 on the road.
Aiden Scott and Christian Labrador were among the main playmakers for Shawnee Heights as the former threw for 333 yards and three touchdowns while picking up 12.8 yards per attempt and the latter gained 176 total yards and two touchdowns. A healthy portion of that aerial production (87 yards to be exact) went to Tyren Parker, who also brought in a receiving touchdown.
Shawnee Heights' defense was in the mix too, especially the secondary: they snagged four passes before it was all said and done. Parker led the group effort, picking up two of those interceptions all by himself.
Meanwhile, Basehor-Linwood took their game on the road on Friday with ease, bagging a 48-14 victory over Piper. The Bobcats pushed the score to 48-7 by the end of the third, a deficit the Pirates cut but never quite recovered from.
Basehor-Linwood relied on the efforts of Carson Dixon, who threw for 118 yards and two touchdowns, and Nick Doering, who rushed for 103 yards on only 13 carries. The dominant performance gave Doering a new career-high in rushing yards.
The win got Shawnee Heights back to even at 1-1. As for Basehor-Linwood, the victory made it two in a row for them and bumps their season record up to 2-0.
Shawnee Heights was taken down by Basehor-Linwood 42-14 when the teams last played back in September of 2023. That contest was all but decided by halftime, at which point Shawnee Heights was down 28-0.
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